Obama, Celebs Celebrate Supreme Court Ruling Allowing DACA Recipients to Continue Working and Living in US

Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania ruling means that 70,000-126,000 women could now lose their contraception coverage.“Today’s ruling is egregious—people rely on birth control for their health, for their livelihoods, and for their ability to determine their own futures," Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO, Planned Parenthood Action Fund said in a statement.

Kanye West? Some celebrities are! On Saturday, July 4, the rapper, 43, took to Twitter to make a big announcement: He’s running for president against President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.“We must now realize the promise of America by trusting God, unifying our vision and building our future,” the designer wrote. “I am running for president of the United States! #2020VISION.”Kim Kardashian, retweeted her husband’s message, adding an emoji of an American flag.

People are speaking out in response to Kanye West‘s surprise announcement that he is going to be running for President of the United States in 2020.

The gay man whose case was pivotal in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning discrimination against LGBTQ people in the workplace says he is “elated” by the result.

Roe vs. Wade decision that enshrined the right to abortion as constitutional in the U.S.Louisiana's abortion law was significant for two reasons.The first is that it would have required doctors to have a credential called an “admitting privilege” at a nearby hospital.

Angelique Jackson When former Vice Pres. Joe Biden declared that he supported same-sex marriage during a “Meet the Press” interview in 2012, he represented the highest-ranking politician to ever endorse gay Americans’ right to marry.

Nicole Maines, 22, is known by many fans as ‘Dreamer’, on The CW’s Supergirl. But the 22-year-old 2020 GLAAD Award nominee is also an avid transgender rights activist who has achieved much more than the coveted title of TV’s first transgender superhero.

Two months after endorsing him, former President Barack Obama laid out exactly why he thinks his former VP and “close friend” should win the election on November 3. Obama, 58, appeared at a virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, where he said unequivocally: the United States cannot weather another four years of Donald Trump‘s “shambolic and mean-spirited approach to government.”

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefAmy Schumer had a message for Hillary Clinton.On the day after the 2016 election, the “Trainwreck” actor and comedian took to her Instagram account to express her rage at the millions of Americans who had supported Donald Trump. “People who voted for him, you are weak.

As you might be aware, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the LGBTQ community being protected from workplace discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

It’s rare you can define an era by just one interaction, much less by just a couple tweets. But in this case the difference between what the US had in Barack Obama and what we got in Donald Trump is SO STARK you can’t NOT see it.

The New York Times.“We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

A number of celebrities took to social media on Thursday to applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to reject President Donald Trump’s administrative decision to end DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals], the program that gives legal protection to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

President Donald Trump's administrative decision to end DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals], the program that gives legal protection to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.The DACA program was created in 2012 by former President Barack Obama's administration.

The Supreme Court ruled on June 18 that the Trump administration will not be allowed to pursue its plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created under the Obama administration, which protects children of undocumented immigrants.

Becky G was among the first to applaud the Supreme Court's decision on social media and later told Billboard, "Talk about the little glimpses of light we need during these times to remember why we're fighting. It was an emotional morning, to say the least.

Laverne Cox, like many, was “utterly shocked” when she found out that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of protecting LGBTQ workers‘ rights. “I was shocked, to be perfectly honest,” she admitted on the June 18 episode of The View.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program cannot be ended. This ruling allows for nearly 800,000 participating young people, also known as Dreamers, to remain in the US without the fear of deportation (per the following of DACA rules).

The New York Times.The decision is a reversal of one of the Trump campaign's central promises to its conservative base, with Roberts writing, "We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies. We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action."The decision was applauded by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who has long advocated on behalf of Dreamers.